Why is it so difficult to lose weight?
Before we start unpacking some of the truths about why it really is so difficult to lose weight, we want to invite you to think about the following questions.
- What messages have you been given about your body and weight loss?
- Where have these messages come from?
- What does it mean to have body that weighs more? Or a body that weighs less?
- What have you been told about how weight loss affects your health?
- What have you been told about the best ways to lose weight?
How have you tried to lose weight in the past?
If your experience is anything like ours…and the many people we have worked with…we imagine when your answer might be something like this:
“I have tried EVERYTHING (insert the names of all the diets you know…, I have gone to the gym, tried cleanses and detoxes, perhaps even medications or had surgery), and I have tried these things LOTS of times! What happens is that they work ok in the short term…but over time… I just end up re-gaining all the weight I have lost.
Looking back at your experiences so far…
- How many times do you think you have tried to lose weight?
- How many different methods have you used?
- What has actually worked for you?
- And…this is important…for how long?
If there really was a way to lose weight and get the results you want – surely you would have found it by now?!
And surely, there wouldn’t be SO many companies out there all trying to achieve the exact same thing??
Our experience at The Curvy Wellness Company and the scientific evidence we have seen tells us that:
Diets can help some people lose weight, but what tends to happen is that, over time (and even sometimes without the person actually changing what they are doing) the rate of weight loss slows down or plateaus and often people will start to re-gain the weight they have lost.
In fact, research shows that the majority of people who lose weight by dieting will gain it back again over time. The specific statistics on this vary between studies but suggest that over 2-5 years between 80 and 97% of people will re-gain most, if not all of the weight they have lost…sometimes plus more.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17469900/
Unfortunately, we live in a world where we have been conditioned to believe that this inability to keep the weight off is our fault and so we blame ourselves…for not trying hard enough, not being motivated enough, or not having enough willpower to lose weight.
Sound familiar?
As evidence based practitioners we believe it is important to understand the science of weight loss and use this knowledge to empower people find ways to improve their lives in ways that really matter to them.
Because of the journey we have been on, both personally and professionally, we now have a much better understanding of what happens to our bodies when we go on diet to try and lose weight and we have created a website full of videos to do exactly this.
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